[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I don’t view Snowden as a hero. He did defect to MOSCOW after all. Loose lips sink ships.....That is what I was I taught.

[drypowder]

and if the ship needs to be sunk in order to preserve America’s liberty………….then loose lips are good

[GraceG]

I don’t view Snowden as a hero. He did defect to MOSCOW after all. Loose lips sink ships.....That is what I was I taught.

I view him as a hero who became a coward...

He should have exposed all his info and stayed here in the USA in the public eye after dumping ALL of it!!!

If he wound up dead or persecuted then he could have become a Martyr, now he is only a Heor or a traitor depending on who you ask.

[Leaning Right]

I don’t view Snowden as a hero. He did defect to MOSCOW after all.

One interpretation is that Snowden is a traitor who defected to Moscow. Another interpretation is that he is a concerned but naive whistleblower who had to flee to the safety of Moscow.

I'm guessing that the second interpretation is more likely.

[freedomfiter2]

Well, it wouldn’t have been safe to defect to a country that is an ally of the US. The real traitors are those who know the Federal government is breaking the Constitution and keep their mouths shut.

[pepsionice]

No western guy who ever defected to Moscow....has ever been considered a hero. I think that fact kind says everything.

If he’d defected to Canada or Tonga....maybe we’d all feel different. Maybe if he’d ever finished anything he started (high school, the Army, his CIA tour, university, etc)...we might feel different. Ed is mostly a guy who steps into something, then stumbles his way out....which leads you to wonder how he can survive in Moscow for the coming years.

[hinckley buzzard]

You might try reading the article. It didn't happen the way you seem to think.

[max americana]

I don’t view Snowden as a hero, either.

However..without his information about how bad the en-ey-ey has spied on Americans, no one would have known.

[dagogo redux]

Got to disagree sir.

It’s amazing to me to see the knee jerk “conservative” response - here, on FR of all places - equating Snowden’s acts exposing the growing police state powers with a compromise of “National Security”. Only a fan of big, centralized, all-powerful governments - a Statist - would take sides against him.

Paul Revere had loose lips.

[aquila48]

I fear more the enemy within than Russia.

[kobald]

As noted in the article, that’s Obama’s fault — he didn’t intend to travel to Russia, he got stuck there when his passport was cancelled.